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Name: Paris Donatien LeFay Gallo
She continues to use Paris LeFay as her stage name.

Nicknames: "Baby" by her mother, and sometimes Chris.
XXXXXXXXX"Precious" by Chris's mother.
XXXXXXXXX"Babydoll" by Sessrumnir.
XXXXXXXXX"Dearest" by Chris's grandmother.

Age: 16 17 18 19 20

Birthday: February 18th, 1994 at 11:37 PM (a Friday).

Sign: Aquarius-Pisces Cusp

Gemstone: Garnet

Blood Type: B-

Fav. Food: Apples, berries, melons. Soups, salads, and deli sandwiches. Bread and pasta. Smoothies, shakes, yogurt, and protein bars. Paris eats meat sparingly, typically poultry.

Hated Food: Red meat, seafood, Jello, okra, hotdogs, fast food, and coffee.

School: Senior at DCU, aiming for her BFA in Dance.
Previously Meadowview, from which she was expelled for obstructive and increasingly lewd behavior in 2010 (pre-shop).
She then attended Hillworth for the 2010-2011 school year but dropped out after only one year, after which she acquired her GED.

Hobbies:

Ballet – Paris showed an aptitude for dance at an early age. She began lessons as a toddler, taking youth lessons before working her way up to more advanced classes over the next several years. She earned a spot at the Volkova Ballet Academy when she was nine years old. She switched from pre-pointe to pointe classes two years later. Classical ballet has been and remains her passion, though she has studied other forms of dance over the years, including contemporary, hip-hop, and jazz. Ballet has served as something of a coping mechanism for Paris, offering her a way to gain some structure in what was once an unstructured life. Paris plans on making a career in ballet, starting with professional stage work and perhaps later opening her own ballet studio. In the meantime, she often visits her old studio to sit in on classes and serve as a mentor, and works with the community center to help improve their dance program.

Music – Perhaps a byproduct of her love for dance, Paris has a fondness for music as well. This, too, developed in childhood; her mother would leave the radio on all day, and her father's shop was never without music playing overhead. She also accompanied her parents to concerts when she was young, everything from Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones, to Celine Dion, the Dave Matthews Band, and Fleetwood Mac. Paris likes to listen to music, she likes to dance to music, and she likes to sing to music. She even fancies herself an able singer and has learned to play the guitar. No matter where she is or what she happens to be doing, especially when she's on the road or seeing to the housework, chances are she has the radio blasting. Her favored genres are pop, soft rock, and classical, but she'll listen to anything and probably like it well enough. Paris likes musicals, adores a night out for karaoke, and used to sneak into clubs not just for the social interactions, but for the music and dancing.

Social Media – Between school, dance, and married life, Paris has come to realize how easy it is to lose touch with the people she would have spent most of her time bothering and seeking attention from if she were still living the life of an indiscriminate social butterfly. Of course she still enjoys spending time around people, but she's found the internet and social media sites to be a good way of supplementing her social activities. She wants to make sure everyone in her social circle still knows what she's up to, after all. She is constantly updating her status on Facebook, searching for recipes and decorating ideas on Pinterest, and posting pictures of anything that might strike her fancy on Instagram. Paris is a selfie fiend and has a habit of taking purposefully bad pictures. She also has her own Youtube channel where she posts videos of dance variations, or videos of herself singing a random song or two. She recently started a blog she titled “primadonna,” where she posts the random thoughts and occurrences that make up her life.

Housework – Contrary to what she thought when she was younger, Paris enjoys being married. She isn't even terribly old-fashioned, but she enjoys being a wife. When she was younger she did a majority of the housework for her father. She's used to taking care of someone. She likes having someone to take care of, and her husband happens to fit that role quite nicely. It's developed into something of a habit. When she's stressed and needs to relax, Paris will head into the kitchen to cook or bake something, typically a new recipe she'll then upload onto the internet. She enjoys teasing her husband when she picks up after him, but never seems to mind or think of it as an inconvenience. She likes to wash and fold the laundry; she likes to keep all the rooms spotless; she likes to decorate the house for the seasons. She's planted herb and vegetable gardens out in the backyard. She has a strawberry patch, blueberry and raspberry bushes, a grape arbor, and a small apple orchard. She's learned to make her own jellies and jams. Over the years Paris has turned into a homebody, and she's surprisingly alright with that.

Virtues:

Resilient – Paris has had a lot go wrong in her life, but she's never let it beat her. She's tripped and she's stumbled and she's fallen on her way to adulthood, and yet through it all she's managed to rise up and keep pushing herself forward. She's felt useless, she's felt worthless, she's felt stupid and out of control, but she remains determined to prove herself, to pick herself up and make her way through her problems in the hopes that things will be better on the other side. Paris won't admit defeat until she's exhausted all of her resources and done everything she possibly can to solve a problem and make things right. Physical pain, emotional pain, psychological pain—she fights through them all, and if she sees other people struggling along the way she'll encourage them to do the same. Paris has spent a lot of time questioning herself. She knows how difficult it can be. She might falter, but she's never given up.

Passionate – Paris's emotions are strong and quite noticeable. Few of them ever manage to slip under the radar; it's generally rather easy for other people to know what or how she's feeling at any given time. Somehow her emotions always show through—in her eyes, in her expression, in her voice, in her actions and reactions. When she's happy, Paris likes to share her happiness with others. She'll smile, she'll dance with joy, she'll laugh and sing and be merry, and try to coax others to join her. At the same time, when she's angry about something, people are going to know. Rarely does anyone have to question her mood or her thoughts on a subject. Chances are she's going to give herself away one way or another. When she hates, she hates deeply; when she needs, she needs fiercely; and when she loves, she loves truly and with all of her heart. She wears her heart on her sleeve for all to see, and she wears her emotions on her face for all to read. She's never put much thought into holding back. Paris believes in being honest about her emotions, with herself and with others.

Decisive – Though she may question herself at times, once Paris has something in mind she's unlikely to change it. She knows exactly what she wants. She doesn't always know how to get it, but she doesn't usually waste much time worrying about it. When she sees something she wants, she goes for it. When a decision needs to be made, she comes to a conclusion without agonizing over it or thinking “What if I'm making the wrong choice?” If she ends up being wrong, she'll worry about fixing it after. After spending so much time wallowing about some of the things that happened in her past, Paris has grown to focus more on the here and now, and what she can do in the present to get the sort of future she wants for herself. She sets goals for herself and then she plows right in and fights tooth and nail to achieve them. She doesn't want to waste a lot of time struggling to decide what she wants from life and then forget to actually live it. She knows who she is, and she knows what she's capable of.

Devoted – When she cares for someone, Paris will do whatever she can to see them happy, safe, and healthy. She takes care of them when they're incapable of taking care of themselves. Often, she takes care of them even in the event that they are capable. Hers is a soul utterly devoted to her family and her friends. Paris is zealous in her attachments to people and committed to each relationship in her life. It takes something drastic to lose her friendship or loyalty. Of course, this trait applies in other areas of her like as well, not just with her relationships. She doesn't stop half-way. She puts all of herself into everything that she does. Paris has been dedicated to her dancing since she was young, and her success is a product of that dedication as much as it is her natural talent. She learned early on that if she wanted something, she had to persist no matter what the odds. When she believes in something, Paris will see it through to the end, bitter as it may be.

Flaws:

Overbearing – Because Paris feels things so strongly, there's always the chance that she'll go overboard, and she does frequently. When she truly cares about someone, she can get into the habit of nagging and hovering and clinging too tight. She likes to take care of the people who've managed to carve out a place in her heart, whether it's making sure they're eating right and hounding them until they do, or forcing herself into their business and trying to tell them exactly how they should solve their problems. Alternatively, when she disagrees with people or doesn't appreciate something someone's done, they can be sure that she'll let them know it. Paris will shout someone down if she firmly believes in what she's saying, and she'll criticize people when she thinks they've done something wrong. She projects her emotions, which means there's a pretty good chance the people around her are going to notice them in some way, whether they take on those emotions as their own and end up being a victim of one of her emotional outbursts.

Hypocritical – One of the many things Paris dislikes is unfair expectations, yet she holds other people to some pretty high standards. If they don't live up to those standards, they'll know exactly how angry and disappointed she is in them. Part if this is due to her inability to trust so easily—when she does trust, she expects people to live up to it without fault, even if she knows that she herself is imperfect and it would be impossible for anyone else to be anything but—and the other part of it is perhaps due to how high she sets the standards for herself. She does and says things that she would not like in other people, and then criticizes them for doing the very same things she's done. Paris is quick to blame others, often forgetting until she's done so that there have been points where she hasn't lived up to the standards she places on them.

Self-Absorbed – Loving as she can be, and devoted as she is to the people in her life that matter, Paris is nonetheless rather self-absorbed. This has less to do with her feelings for someone or the way she thinks of herself, and more to do with how she acts and the way in which she views her own desires in relation to those of other people. Once she has an idea in her head, Paris refuses to let it go until she's satisfied. This has and will result in negative consequences for all those who may be involved with her at the time. There is a certain stubbornness about her that often causes her to come across as self-centered. She wants what she wants, and if something gets in her way she'll step around them or over them to get it. Paris plays the part of the protector and the caregiver very well, but these traits find their roots in her desire for control, and her unwillingness to allow others to control her life in turn. She frequently comes across as the type who thinks too highly of herself even if the reality is sometimes quite different.

Needy – Paris wants love, attention, and support from people as much as she gives it to others. Over time, her previous feelings of loss and abandonment have morphed into a desperate need for validation. She wants to know that her friends and family love her as much as she loves them, but doesn't always believe this to be true even when all evidence should support the belief. She wants to be accepted and supported by the people she cares about in life, and puts so much energy into assuming how they think and feel that she doesn't realize she already has those things. Paris tries too hard and clings too tightly to people, to the point in which she may be in danger of pushing them away. She's perhaps a bit overcautious about losing someone else, or being abandoned like she was when she was younger. Her feelings for herself are correlated directly with what other people feel toward her.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Eyes: A bright, vibrant turquoise. Paris's eyes are large with naturally long lashes.

Hair: Paris's natural hair color is Swedish blonde. More recently she's taken to dying it a more golden color instead. Her hair is naturally curly, and though it once fell to her waist, she recently cut it to rest at mid-neck when curled.

Face: Round and fine-boned with very delicate, feminine features. Paris is very fair skinned with slightly rosy cheeks, small ears, high cheekbones, and full lips. She is never seen leaving the house without make-up.

Physique: Built like a traditional ballerina.
Slender, to the point of being a bit boney.
Long toned legs; a long, graceful neck; narrow shoulders; small chest; tiny waist; and long, slender arms.

Clothes: Paris tends to wear skirts and dresses. Jeans and slacks are not a common feature in her wardrobe. She does, however, like tights, stockings, and leggings (she will wear leggings as pants if she wants to, thank you very much). She adores a good pair of heels and has over seventy pairs of shoes. Her favorite colors to wear are pink and turquoise. Her favorite prints are floral and polka-dot.